1. Explain the significance of selected ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in Tennessee, the United States and other nations such as St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Kwanzaa.
2. Retell the heroic deeds of characters from folktales and legends.

3.1.04 Understand the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups to Tennessee.

1. Compare ethnic and/or cultural celebrations in Tennessee, the United States, and other nations.
2. Explain the significance of selected individual writers and artists and their stories, poems, statues, paintings and other examples of cultural heritage from regions in Tennessee and around the world.

3.5.01 Identify major people, events, and issues in Tennessee, United States, and world history.

1. Identify the heroic deeds of characters from state, national, and global histories.
2. Identify historical figures that helped to shape regions.

3.5.02 Understand the place of historical events in the context of past, present and future.

1. Describe the order of events by using designation of time periods such as ancient times and modern times.
2. Describe how individuals, events, and ideas cause regional change over time.
3. Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present and future.
4. Describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years.

3.5.03 Explain how to use historical information acquired from a variety of sources.

1. Create and interpret timelines.
2. Identify factors that cause development and change in communities.
3. Compare various interpretations of the same time period using evidence such as photographs and interviews.

3.1.10 Introduce informational skills to facilitate learning.

             a. Use outside resources to access information (e.g., family and community).
             b. Use media sources to access information (e.g., online catalog, non-fiction books, encyclopedias, CD-ROM references, Internet).
             c. Use text referenced material (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, magazines, and newspapers).
             d. Gather and record information on a topic.

3.1.11 Develop skills to facilitate reading to learn in a variety of content areas.

             a. Develop and maintain content specific vocabulary.
             b. Use text features to locate information (e.g., charts, tables of contents, maps, illustrations).
             c. Apply skills and strategies to comprehend informational text (e.g., pre-reading strategies, comprehension strategies).
             d. Use self-correction strategies while reading (e.g., pausing, rereading, asking for help).